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...world of ubiquitous performance enhancement, effort still matters, but everyone’s contribution gets them just a little bit further. This springboard effect has the potential to generate rewards for all members of society, because many desirable human attributes??like intelligence—are not merely positional advantages, but also confer absolute benefits, like new cures for diseases or great works...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: A Tale of Two Alex-es | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...right thing for Harvard is to maximize the return on the endowment using its attributes??there is no reason why we should outsource a triple-A balance sheet,” says El-Erian. “And we have the best operations in place, the best risk management in place, the best technology in place. It’s just waiting for the portfolio managers to come...

Author: By Cyrus M. Mossavar-rahmani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: El-Erian Works To Remake HMC | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

Elaborating on that explanation, Summers said, “It does appear that on many, many different human attributes??height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability—there is relatively clear evidence that whatever the difference in means, which can be debated, there is a difference in the standard deviation, and variability of a male and a female population...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Releases Transcript of Talk | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

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